Six local Girl Guides win awards
KNOCKBRIDGE AND GLYDE CLUBS WIN
SIX local teenagers received Irish Girl Guides’ highest award – the Trail Blazer National Guide Award – at a special ceremony last week.
Aoife Marry, Rachel Muckion and Alanna Tinnelly of Knockbridge Girl Guides and Kate Englishbly, Emma Malone and Sophie Rooney of Glyde Girl Guides were among 107 girls from around the country to blaze a trail to Croke Park with their proud families and Guide leaders to celebrate reaching the pinnacle of Guiding.
Each Girl Guide received a Trail Blazer gold pin and a National Guide Award certificate. The National Guide Award is made in recognition of the successful completion of a series of challenges, including teamwork activities, outdoor survival skills, community service, global awareness and working with younger IGG members to help them develop confidence, independence and essential life-skills.
Presenting the awards, IGG President Maureen Murphy said: ‘All the recipients have worked hard on their own initiative and, in doing so, demonstrated self-motivation, commitment and enthusiasm. Each girl has blazed a trail in her community to earn the award and I am sure will continue to blaze a trail not only in her own community, but in wider society too.’
Carol O’Brady, Chair of IGG Guide Branch, said: In Guiding girls are awarded for doing their best and each one of you has done your best, working on your own initiative to carry out a series of challenges. You have worked hard to achieve what you set out to do so well done.’